Interview with Roger Ariyoshi 7/21/2004 tape 3
Interview with Roger Ariyoshi, son of Koji Ariyoshi, recorded on July 21, 2004 for Biography Hawaiʻi: Koji Ariyoshi. Topics include Roger's memories of the Honolulu Record Newspaper and his mother's involvement there; the impact of his father's arrest on his immediate family; how Ariyoshi got involved and learned the floral business; Roger's role in the family floral business and how it was like working under his father; Ariyoshi's involvement in the formation of the Hawaiʻi-China Peoples Friendship Association and his three month trip to China in the early 1970s; Roger's first trip to China in 1974; Ariyoshi's philosophy of life as well as his views of death and remembrance; and what Roger would want people to know and remember about his father.
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